well, there's shit that happens and then there's stuff that goes way beyond shit that simply happens. read about the use of torture, how that "system" worked and what the role of rumsfeld et al...
Iraq war logs: US turned over captives to Iraqi torture squads | World news | The Guardian
in the uk there's immediate calls for an investigation.
in the states, there's football games to be watched.
clearly the us politico-military order has suffered a very significant erosion of its legitimacy thanks to those fine fellows in the bush administration such that it's clear that there's concern about anything like an accounting or investigation or even honest statements concerning obvious problems to do with the iraq war---which are if anything worse than we knew---and that is one of the main revelations in these documents.
the pervasive complacency/indifference----coupled with the lack of substantial media exposure (when compared with the independent, the guardian and al jazeera) seems almost an opinion management result.